Palmer — #1075 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Palmer

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,035 babies named Palmer between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Palmer currently holds the #1075 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 240 babies received it in a single year. Palmer is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8,055 additional births since 1908.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Palmer performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Palmer shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 356 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Palmer in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Palmer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,035 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.